The historian's craft
By: Marc Bloch ; translated from the French by Peter Putnam, with an introd. by Joseph R. Strayer.
Contributors: Strayer, Joseph Reese, 1904-1987
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Historiography.
Other titles: Dr Julius Slavenas Collection
Work titles: Apologie pour l'histoire.
Notes: Dr Julius Slavenas Collection

Translation of Apologie pour l'histoire.

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1953.
Table of contents: title: I: History, men, and time; title: The choice of the historian; title: History and men; title: Historical time; title: The idol of origins; title: The boundaries between past and present; title: Understanding the present by the past; title: Understanding the past by the present; title: II: Historical observation; title: General characteristics of historical observation; title: Evidence; title: The transmission of evidence; title: III: Historical criticism; title: An outline of the history of the critical method; title: In pursuit of fraud and error; title: Toward a logic of the critical method; title: IV: Historical analysis; title: Judging or understanding?; title: From the diversity of human functions to the unity of consciences; title: Nomenclature; title: IV: Historical causation.